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Macroonis
Barging into this conversation about yiynovas (Hi @
Foleo I'm not a stalker) to add my 2 cents because I have the same tablet and Foleo tends to kind of suck at weighing the pros and cons of things he likes.
As I think the upsides to buying a yiynova over a cintiq should be fairly obvious (seriously, $450 vs $1,800) I will be focusing on downsides. Of note however is that the yiynova weighs ~10lbs compared to the cintiqs ~20lbs, which can be a good or bad thing depending on who you ask. Definitely a good thing for Foleo who has atrocious drawing habits and just puts the thing in his lap to draw. What the hell, Foleo.
First off, the pen requires batteries. Fairly straightforward. The batteries last a very long time though so there's that.
Second, cables. Just like the cintiq the wacom requires 3. Unlike the cintiq, for some reason the yiynova uses a VGA cable. Seriously. Why a VGA cable? Who even uses VGA cables anymore? These guys do, apparently. You might need an adapter, you might not. I don't know the situation with your PC setup, after all. What you WILL probably need are extension cords, unless you're using a laptop, because the cables for the yiynova are very short. In addition unlike the cintiq's cables the yiynova's are attached directly to the screen, so if you manage to damage the wires somehow. Well. Tough luck. Moving on.
Third and honestly probably the really, only important difference between a cintiq and yiynova: the display resolution for a yiynova is smaller. Much, much smaller. The cintiq will display at 1920 x 1200, but the yiynova only goes up to 1440 x 900. What kind of wonky *** resolution is that?? I haven't got a clue. That's the msp19u, though. I hear the mvp22u goes up to 1920 x 1080. I can't tell you more than that, however, since I obviously don't have any personal experience with it. At $750 though it's probably worth looking into if this is your only concern.
Finally, I've gotten an annoying error that I have yet to be able to find a solution for: the driver will stop recognizing my pen when I turn my computer off. I have to uninstall and reinstall the driver every time I turn my computer off, which is really only a hassle because installing the driver requires restarting the computer. It's only a minor inconvenience to do the reinstall when you turn your computer on for the day, but I can certainly see the possibility of this error occurring to you (however slight the odds) being a deal breaker if you have a computer that takes a year and a half on startup. Putting your computer in sleep mode instead of shutting it off entirely can circumvent the problem, but only for a few days. After a seemingly random amount of time the driver will simply stop registering the pen again.
Now before you let this problem scare you away from buying a yiynova, keep in mind that it seems to be an astonishingly rare error. I've only been able to find two or three mentions of anyone else getting a similar error in my searches, and Foleo has never encountered this problem or similar despite owning his yiynova for at least three times as long as I've had mine. Also that I...haven't contacted customer support because I'm a baby who will avoid human contact if it isn't absolutely necessary and I don't think it's that much of an inconvenience whoops.
tl;dr for nearly a fourth of the price it's honestly a fantastic deal. As long as you don't win the bad luck lottery the downsides are mostly minor quality of life issues, with the exception of the display resolution which I know can be a real deal breaker for people used to working with bigger resolutions.
Good god this ended up being longer than I meant for it to be. Sorry lol.
Edit: OH MAN I almost forgot. The optimum viewing angle for the yiynova is smaller than the cintiq's, which means that you have less leeway before colors start appearing wonky. I haven't actually had a problem with this, however.
